This was Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity's last flight. Six passengers and crew flew to an altitude of 54.4 miles (87.5 km).

The battle of the billionaires hoping to claim their stake in outer space wages onward. This past weekend, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceflight company successfully reached outer space for ...

Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight. Virgin Galactic's sixth commercial spaceflight may be ...

SPACEPORT AMERICA — Kellie Gerardi, a payload specialist and bioastronautics researcher with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, exited the VSS Unity on Thursday morning after a ...

Virgin Galactic is preparing to land among the stars. On Wednesday, Virgin Galactic said they were working on its final preparations at its base in New Mexico as the VSS Unity is scheduled to launch ...